Salesforce.com Invests in Japan’s Cloud 2 Industry

Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has announced its latest strategic investments in Japan, with the goal to drive the continued expansion of Japan’s Cloud 2 industry and accelerate the availability of locally developed social, mobile and open cloud-computing services.

Salesforce.com will invest in a Tokyo data center slated to open in November and further development of the Ruby programming language in collaboration with Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto. The company will also invest approximately 223 million yen in Toyota Motor Corporation to develop Toyota Friend, a private social network for Toyota customers and their cars. Additionally, Salesforce.com will invest in the Netyear Group Corporation, which offers e-marketing and business consulting services to large enterprises.

“Salesforce.com remains committed to Japan and to growing the Cloud 2 economy globally,” said Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s chairman and CEO. “Through our investments, we hope to inspire and incent Japan’s innovators to transform Japanese businesses with social, mobile and open cloud computing.”

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